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[[underline]] Rossi, Redman, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] myself, [[/underline]] and Geo [[underline]] Roll [[/underline]] present about bonus for 1925.
Evening informal dinner of [[underline]] Cruising [[/underline]] Club at Army and Navy Club. [[underline]] Henry Howard [[/underline]] and others discussing merits of [[underline]] shallow draft [[strikethrough]] sea [[/strikethrough]] sail boats [[/underline]] for off shore cruising. Very interesting evening.
[[underline]] Dec 17. [[strikethrough]] De [[/strikethrough]] Directors meeting [[/underline]] then [[underline]] stockholder's [[/underline]] meeting followed by another director's meeting. Nobody present at stockholder's meeting but directors and two of the Brown Boys.  [[underline]] Kirk Brown absent [[/underline]] so [[underline]] Alan Brown who is in hospital. [[/underline]] Yesterday I had the [[underline]] same unpleasant [[/underline]]
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discussion with [[underline]] Schleussner [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Karpen [[/underline]] about their [[underline]] salaries. [[/underline]] Again I offered to serve the company without compensation or in proportion to theirs. They again want the same as last year so I had to do the same thing. I left ^[[discussion about]] compensation of [[underline]] Berlitz [[/underline]] to both of them saying that whatever [[underline]] Berliss [[/underline]] gets, [[underline]] I consider George Baekeland [[/underline]] and [[underline]] George Rolls services [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] as valuable [[/strikethrough]] to be compensated [[underline]] at the same rate altho' if otherwise they are willing to serve for $5500 a year, Schleussner [[/underline]] used the [[underline]] same forced [[/underline]] arguments of last year. So I had to be firmly outspoken and told him that nobody in the service of the B. Corp. under-